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Friday, November 13, 2015

Court Orders SSS to Vacate Former NSA, Sambo Dansuki Residence and to be Allowed to Travel.

The Department of State Security Services, SSS, has been ordered to vacate the residence of a former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, in Asokoro Abuja,
and to also obey its order allowing him to travel abroad for medical
attention. This was order was given by the Federal High Court after a sitting in Abuja.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola gave the order on Friday after Mr. Dasuki had
returned to court to report the Nigerian government for refusing to
allow him enforce his fundamental rights.

"A Court order must be obeyed," Mr. Ademola said.

He also said there was nothing wrong in allowing Mr. Dasuki to travel
abroad for medical treatment, saying "only a fit person can stand for
trial and investigation. My own orders will not be flouted."

In the suit, Mr. Dasuki, who has been placed under house arrest in
the last one week by operatives of the SSS, sought enforcement of his
fundamental human rights to dignity and security of his life. He had approached the court last Monday asking for an order to allow him enforce his rights.

In the suit filed by his counsel, Ahmed Raji, Mr. Dasuki pleaded with
the court to stop the siege on his house and to remove all impediments,
human and non-human barricade and bulwarks said to have hindered the
permission granted him since November 3 to travel abroad for treatment
of his ailing medical condition.

In a motion on notice filed pursuant to section 36(5) 37 and 41 of
the 1999 constitution and sections 1(1) and (2) and 266 of the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015, the ex-NSA also sought an
order of the court extending the November 3 order permitting him to
travel abroad for treatment.

The motion on notice was premised on five grounds including the
request to enforce the three-week permission granted him by the court on
November 3 to keep a re-rescheduled medical appointment with his
physician abroad.

He claimed that the Federal Government acting through the operatives
of the SSS and other security agencies had frustrated the order by
barricading his apartment since the permission was granted.

Mr. Dasuki further asked the court to dispose with his appearance in
court for the purpose of this application because of the alleged
constant threats to his life from the security agencies.

In a 13-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion, Mr. Dasuki
claimed that following the order of November 3 permitting him to go
abroad for medical attention, he immediately purchased his travel ticket
and boarding pass issued to him to accomplish the trip.

He said shortly after, operatives of the SSS acting on behalf of the
Federal Government, stormed and barricaded his house at Asokoro in
brazen defiance of the court order and prevented him from traveling out.

Mr. Dasuki asserted that the siege on his house ought to be
immediately removed and that as a result of the aggression of the
Federal Government, his life has been under constant threat.

In his order Friday, Justice Ademola said he would send his staff to
go to Mr. Dasuki’s residence to confirm his claims about a siege.

The Federal Government had preferred criminal charges of unlawful
possession of firearms and money laundering against Mr. Dasuki at the
Federal High Court.

He denied the charges and was granted bail.

As a result of his successful application, Justice Ademola had on
November 3 granted him permission to travel abroad to treat his ailment.

The grant of the permission followed the affidavit evidence filed by
the Federal Government that investigations into the alleged possession
of firearms and money laundering have been fully completed.

However, the three-week permission to go abroad for medical attention
could not be implemented following the house arrest the SSS placed
Dasuki since November 4, 2015.